@xenajoycarr: Nothing says childhood trauma quite like a family game of Go Fish and a visit from the police. 🫠 I know you might be thinking… a CARD GAME traumatized you? OHKAY. 😂 But it wasn’t the game. It was my mom passing out sitting up in the kitchen chair because she’s been drinking all day. It was Gary calling my sister a “w***re” and getting so aggressive that the cops were called. It was my grandma slapping me across the face because I said “oh my God.” It was the screaming, the drinking, the fighting, and never knowing when something as simple as playing a card game was going to turn into an absolute shit show. And the thing is… these weren’t isolated incidents. This was normal in my childhood. So when I’m sitting around a table playing cards with my own kids, laughing, being silly, and actually ENJOYING ourselves, sometimes it hits me… This is what it was supposed to feel like. And I’m sitting there realizing that something as simple as a family game night can be healing a part of me I didn’t even realize was still hurting. To them, it’s just a card game. To me, it’s a childhood I finally get to experience without fear. ❤️

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